Manuscript and audiovisual collections include, but are not limited to:
When you communicate with a curator(s) about a donation they will give you instructions for dropping off or shipping the material. Please do not mail or drop off any materials for donation without making prior arrangements with the curatorial staff. The Ohio History Connection is not obligated to preserve any materials that are dropped off or mailed without making prior arrangements.
We do not currently accept digital scans or photocopies of documents and photographs. Due to space constraints and limited staff time for cataloging, it is important that we focus on preserving documents and images in their original format.
If documents, images or audio or video recordings were originally created in an electronic format we will accept the digital files and do our best to make the materials accessible in the format in which they were created.
While we will give consideration to all historical materials related to Ohio, limitations on storage space and staff time for processing and cataloging requires us to focus collecting materials that are not currently well represented in the Manuscript & Audiovisual Collections.
Current priorities:
Under Represented Communities, such as the LGBTQ plus community and New American communities
Unfolding events, such as weather related disasters, the 2020 Presidential election, and the COVID-19 emergency
Poindexter Village, a public housing community in Columbus, and Columbus African American Community
Ohio government, including campaign materials and papers of those elected to statewide offices and public employees
Jesse Owens Photographs, Collection Number SC 5859
Women's March, Collection Number VFM 6425 AV